Can the Golden State Warriors get back into the 70-win club? Victories will LeBron James add to the Los Angeles Lakers’ tally? And where would they stumble?
We’re projecting all 30 teams’ finest – and – worst-case scenarios and where each can hit bumps in the road during the 2018-19 season.
Our panel — a group of more than 40 reporters, insiders and editors — is awaiting this season with a new variant of NBA Power Rankings. Voters were asked to decide on the better team heading into this year in a series of head-to-head matchups comprising tens of thousands of votes.
Note: Our best-case/worst-case scenarios and month-by-month win percentages were created using ESPN’s Basketball Power Index. For best-case/worst-case situations, we used results that had a three percent or higher chance of happening, according to BPI projections of the 2018-19 season.
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